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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
11,675 entries
January 16, 2015 · 7:25 PM · SPHERE
Stevensville, MT
(( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)
January 15, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Sacramento, CA
This looked like a spherical object, standing still, flashing green and red, and then occasionally just red. We saw it for 5 minutes total, including the time it was hovering out of sight. When it started to hover away, the flashing lights turned pure blood red.
January 15, 2015 · 3:40 PM · SPHERE
Etna, NH
Saw three lights in sky. Each were changing positions in a horizontal line in the sky. Would disappear, and then reappear, seconds later. The lights were orange. Witness provides no contact information. PD
January 15, 2015 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Catonsvill, MD
I was pulling into the library when I noticed this circular sphere about the size of a commercial jet in the sky only thing is that it wasn't moving at all and it was very windy that day. So instead of just heading into the library I parked, grabbed my phone, and walked out to the main road to get a better look if it was still there and it was. And it still hadn't moved an inch. If it had been like a blimp or a plane or anything like that- it would be moving and trust me- I know about the white blimp that hovers over Dundalk, MD, the thing is though is that I drive through Catonsville to get back home from work and I have NEVER seen the white blimp from Catonsville. It was definitely metallic in structure. From my standpoint I could see the sunlight reflecting off of it because I could see this bright almost halo-like thing around it. It was completely spherical in shape and honestly I cannot think of anything it might have been other than a UFO. Now as for background of the observer: I had just gotten off work that day and was heading to the library to visit with my young nephews. I have never drank or smoked in my life and I have never done any illicit drugs. To my knowledge I do not have any mental illnesses that would cause me to hallucinate and even so I have a picture of the UFO to prove that it was there!
January 15, 2015 · 6:30 AM · SPHERE
Bothell, WA
I stepped out on my back deck in which I have a full view of the Cascade Mountain range. A stationary orange light above the cloud line caught my attention. It started to move slowly and I just figured it was an airplane coming towards me at a strange angle. Then it instantly shifted direction and stopped. Then went in another direction and kept moving slowly. I called my son from the front room and said, "You gotta see this thing". We both watched it and tried to figure out what it could be. It then started moving slowly horizontally for some distance and stopped again. Then made a vertical descent almost to the ground. This is when I could estimate how close it was as it was in front of the hill in my sight line. I'd say about a mile. Then it was just gone.
January 15, 2015 · 3:05 AM · SPHERE
Desoto, TX
I've seen meteorites burn in the sky before and this was no meteorite. Truly amazing
January 14, 2015 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Mortimer (UK/England) · United Kingdom
On January 14th at 17:30 in the evening in England, Berkshire. I saw a bright yellow light in the distance, almost as bright as the moon, but slightly smaller than the moon in size. As I observed, it was moving very strangely, short burst movements, it would move a little bit then stop and move again. It was very low in the sky, about the same height as tree tops. As I continued to watch, it moved behind a chimney for a few seconds, before it came out at the top of the chimney, revealing itself again. This bright yellow light suddenly became dimmer and kept moving vertically in the sky. Eventually it was so dim it became as bright as a distant star. Shortly after that it just vanished from view. Unfortunately, I was interrupted by a family member at the time it went so, I missed part of the sighting. However, this all happened in a matter of about 2 minutes roughly I would say. Not seen anything quite like it. Certainly not a plane, I did wonder if it was a helicopter, but it was moving rather strange, plus it left so quickly, which almost rules out a helicopter I think. I do not believe there was any sound, but I was inside the house looking out of my window. So its hard to say if there was any sound, I certainly don't recall any sound at all. Very exciting, I was blown away by it.
January 14, 2015 · 2:55 AM · SPHERE
Chicago, IL
I woke up late last night having fallen asleep on my couch while watching a movie. I awoke to the sound of my television and then turned it off while still lying on my couch. I sat there for a few minutes and darkness looking at my view of the Chicago skyline when a bright light caught my eye. My condominium is the flightpath of O'Hare airport and I've grown use to watching planes fly past my balcony on approach to O'Hare airport. I am also fairly close to the city's medical district and will occasionally see emergency response helicopters fly by my window as well. However, I've become very adept at identifying types of planes, their altitudes, and the speed in which they are flying. As the son of a military and commercial pilot, I've spent more than 45 years around airplanes. This object was flying far too low and moved more fluidly then any aircraft I've seen as it made an ark across the sky. Its lights flickered brightly, making and arcing tracer as it dissipated in the same manner as a signal flare. I walked over to my window looking for signs of a tail light and nothing was there.
January 11, 2015 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Draper, UT
Each disappeared at a time into overcast approximately 4,500 feet base near the east end of Suncrest. My son, wife and I all observed this from our driveway in Draper. None of the objects had any aircraft type navigation lights or beacons on them.
January 10, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Grand Marais, MN
We were sitting on our couch around 8:30 pm. Our dogs start barking defensively, which is not super odd, but then my boyfriend started shouting for me to come look at something. So I was very scared right away. An orange-red, fire-like, or glowing, orb came from the north over the tree line, and then over our house, and continued towards Lake Superior. We both could tell it was low in the sky because we had ran outside to watch. He described it like he thought it was a drone, but it was too glowy, fast, and noise-less to be a drone, we agreed afterwards. I have never seen anything like this in my life. We watched the thing as it got farther away and it stopped and slowly faded, but did not disappear. It then started to blink green and red light. After the shock of first seeing this thing come over us, we saw 2 other odd objects in the sky. It was a very large triangle formation they had all made and all 3 were doing the same blinking. One was way to the northeast; the one we saw flying was souteast, and a third almost directly east, but higher in the sky to make the tip of the triangle.... Shortly after watching and then noticing the formation, a plane began approaching, and looked to be heading directly for it, but ended up below/south, but kept going past. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
January 10, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Mt. Vernon, OH
Seen a bright white light with green and red lights around it. I thought it was an ambulance, got my binoculars, all the lights were separated and the bright light went away, and only saw red and green in the distance, moving fast down and out, one went to the left and one to the right. I then realized it was not a helicopter or ambulance. We assume a date in 2015, and have changed the date above. PD
January 10, 2015 · 6:20 PM · SPHERE
Sydney (Canada), NS · Canada
I went outside around 6:20 p.m., and observed two satilites that were about to pass each other like headed in opposite directions. (N-S). I noticed a flash in the corner of my eye and looked and there was nothing there. I glanced back up at the satiltes and when i looked back over where i saw the flash there were 2 brigh lights sitting vertical. They began moving South and began to climb and started to roll and tumble faster and faster as it fell deeper into space. When i lost site of the lights there was a blue flood light came on for about 2 seconds and went out and repeated a 2 second blue light. I could see a craft moving North. Only for that blue light i wouldn't have see it. It was higher than jetliners fly yet the light were right in front of me.
January 10, 2015 · 4:40 PM · SPHERE
Rutland, VT
1/10/15 at 16:40 facing due west, myself and 2 others witnessed a highly luminous orb moving back and forth quickly in the clear almost dusk sky. My friends saw it first, then texted me in my vehicle. Text was "orb to the left." Easy to visually acquire because it was the only thing in the sky. Very bright, almost pure white light. It was 45degrees in sky from our POV. Witnessed for 25-30 seconds, then completely vanished. Hard to tell altitude and distance because object size unknown. Pretty obvious what it was.
January 10, 2015 · 3:20 PM · SPHERE
Miamisburg, OH
At first, I saw one white sphere object flying in the sky really fast, and then I got up to look even closer and out of nowhere there were suddenly three of them flying in the shape of a triangle. They kept multiplying and eventually there were ten of them and they disappeared. It didn't look like anything from this planet.
January 9, 2015 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Rutland, VT
Four of us viewed a circular display of multi-colored flashing lights in what appeared a close orbit above the earth's atmosphere. The shape of the points of light evolved and rose in the night sky. Between 22:30 and 1:30 a.m., we studied them in a small Celestron telescope. They remained together but the shape shifted slightly as time elapsed. Curious if others have seen this phenomena?
January 9, 2015 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Woodson, IL
At approximately 7pm on January 9, 2015, I was traveling west bound on Woodson-Franklin Road towards Woodson, IL, returning to Jacksonville, IL. Temperature was around 10 degrees and sky was very clear and stars were very bright. As I passed the new water tower and I looked out the drive side window <to my left>. I noticed a Very bright orange sphere in the distance. The sphere was about 30 degrees above the ground to my left. I would feel comfortable stating the object was miles away at least. I kept glancing over at the object as I was approaching the last 2 corners on the road before the straight away into the Town of Woodson. I looked away from the object and had to watch the road since there was a oncoming vehicle coming around the first corner at Walsh Road. The road jogs north for about 1/4 to 1/2 mile, then turns back west into Woodson. As I came around the 2nd corner into the straight stretch to Woodson, I glanced over to the south again and saw the original object still approximately at the same location. However, I also saw a second object, much closer, and slightly lower, traveling east thru the empty corm field. I would put that object at 1/2 mile south of the roadway, approx. 150-200 feet off the ground. It was also a solid orange sphere. It was visibly moving East. When I first saw it It looked to 2/3rds of the way down the straight stretch towards Woodson from the corner I had just rounded. I was traveling at 55 mph to start and noticed it was moving east at a decent speed. I slowed down to about 30mph while watching it, and confirmed that it was moving east, and it passsed between my vehicle and the distant orange object. It was at a lower angle and closer to the ground than the distant one. I sped back up to 55, and entered Woodson, crossing the train tracks, and continuing to the highway towards Jacksonville. Just prior to leaving home, I was visiting and my vehicle was warming up. I had been looking at the sky looking for the new comet that would have been just past Orion's Belt. At that time, I did not see anything unusual in the sky or in the western sky. I am very familiar with star gazing, astronomy, and Chinese lanterns. I can confirm these were not meteors. These were not Iridium Flares. These were not the space station. I can confirm these were not lanterns. They were solid orange, no flickering, perfectly round. I did not take any pictures of the objects. Without a tripod and time exposure, or a very high ISO camera, it would have been moot to even attempt a photo.
January 9, 2015 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Duluth, MN
Me and my dad were driving to grand Marais to do a job. It was about 5:30pm when we saw the see bright glowing orange orbs in the sky. I saw them first and mentioned it, and then they just disappeared. My dad thought it was just towers, and I argued with him. About 2 min later he saw them again, then they disappeared again. He started freaking out then we saw 2 more over the lake, so we pulled over to look, then they were gone. Then we saw 2 more across the street opposite of the lake. Then back over the lake we saw 4 of them flying in formation then it looked like 1 shot out of the other kinda like a missile, then they disappeared. These orbs were over Lake Superior, along the north shore.
January 8, 2015 · 11:13 PM · SPHERE
Cancun (Mexico) · Mexico
2 long cylindrical shapes in green that grew longer and changed shape in a few minutes. Also a dark green circular orb with a haze around it! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 3, 2015 · 1:15 AM · SPHERE
Tucson, AZ
I was letting the dog out for the night, when a coyote howl called my attention to the SE area. In the night sky there were 6 to 8 ORBS reddish in color moving silently to the NNW. the were over the Tucson mid-town area. Davis Monthan AFB is in that area. I thought at first it was the Pima County Patrol aircraft (a turbo prop). However it was all red ORBS not red and green NAV lights nor did they blink. Also, the Sherriff's aircraft has white strobes anti-collision markers. The object moved NNW then without a stop, retraced its path. In a few more seconds it started straight UP. It was a steady glide at no "Super sonic Speeds" just a fast rate until it was undiscernible from the stars. It was a New or full moon and there was a reddish star or planet at the moon's 8 o'clock. I tried to make my own investigation and am not convinced that a "Drone Octicopter: was the object, because the ORBS didn't have border "FUZZ" as the lights in my area have, ie: stop lights, aircraft & tower markers. Furthermore, the SCALES would not support a toy aircrafts size. I had very good sight reference points. I tried to make a report to MUFON but they said " you have done your own research".
January 2, 2015 · 7:21 PM · SPHERE
Olympia, WA
At 7:21pm I was departing out of the Brotherhood Lounge in Olympia after a few drinks to catch the last bus to Aberdeen/Hoquiam which left at 7:20pm. As I ran out the door of the bar I turned the WIFI off on my phone and bolted across the street. I don't recall any traffic coming towards me or around me as everything appeared silent, so began to cut across the parking lot near where the bus departed, as I was near the middle of the parking lot this bright light appeared above me. Knowing that is was not the moon as that was visible in the sky this orbital light was practically a spotlight illuminating a circle on the ground around me. Phone still in hand I pointed upwards to it and held the photo button down snapping these 4 HD shots before my phone went black and rebooted itself immediately with the Apple icon. I laughed because of how the damn thing decided to reset itself and with the quickness. Next thing I know time warped, it slowed dramatically as alm! ost like moving through Jello. I recall being angry that I was force-ably being slowed as I needed to catch that bus as it's the LAST bus to the area I was going to. Struggling through the atmospheric pressure I saw the light around me became a yellowish/orange hue.....now I've seen something like this before many years ago but was startled at this moment. I recall the light above me feeling like some sort of stealth silent helicopter as waves went through my body like being in a MRI/CATSCAN and then everything went bright white and POW! Next thing I know I'm standing in thick fog bank of the side of the road feeling a bit bewildered of my surroundings but yet calmly okay. Nervous, I light a cigarette and immediately my body rejects it causing me to vomit, I take a second drag and it happens again. Music begins playing through my headphones I'm wearing which were previously in my backpack as I cut across the parking lot. The music is the Gorillaz song 99-2000, I look to my left and her comes the bus through the fog. I pitch the smoke and wave the bus down, it stops....door opens and the gal driver says, "I almost missed you there as it's not a normal bus stop." I thank her stopping and go to place what typically costs me $3 into the drop box and she say's it's only $1 which I kinda shrug off as the money dropped and figured I just payed it forward on some deal they have going on. She asks me if I am okay, I say yes and get on the bus....as I look down at the people on the bus they all had this "odd" smile on their faces and a orange glow or aura about them. I sit down and end up messing with this guys backpack reorganizing his stuff in it without him noticing. I comment to the bus driver how she's doing a fine job cutting through this fog and the guy who's backpack I'm messing with, without looking at me says we are dealing with "Flice" which is supposed to be fog ice....like I was supposed to know exactly what that meant. I zip his pack up without anyone else noticing and listen to the song playing through my headphones and then realize as we pull out of the fog bank a ways, we are actually about 20 minutes to Aberdeen, WA. I know now that I "reappeared" in Montesanno about 40 miles from Olympia and I somehow beat the bus which takes about an hour to get to where it picked me up. WTF!??!?!??!? I road the bus in to town and got off the bus doing a quick magic effect with my hat and a tangerine which I gave to the driver when she acted surprised and thanked her for the night. Once off the bus, I light another cigarette, and immediately rejected it, vomiting again and walked to a local bar called the Ace of Clubs. I forcefully choked down the smoke between gags and then went inside. I turned my WIFI back on and light flickered as I walked in. I didn't make eye contact and asked the female bartender for a PBR....and began uploading the photos I took to a group on Facebook that I'm a member of and start typing out what happened via my phone. I began to tremble a bit and the photos give me a problem with not uploading in sequence and I'm pissed at my phone as I continue to type and that bartender asks me if I am okay? I look up at hear and say, "No...yes...well no...I'm not sure....something just happened to me that I cannot explain. Will you please look at me and tell me if I appear intoxicated or under the influence of drugs or something?" She tell me I look perfectly sober and I began to tell her what happened showing her the images. She listens, I cry. She walks away and walks back I tell her some more and then her husband comes over eye looking all blurry but with a grin on his face as he begins rubbing my back. He was a large man with very warm hands and asks me if I am okay? I tell him the same thing I originally said to her and begin to describe the light I saw and he walks away shaking someone else's hand and I grab my phone, jacket and bag and split trying to video chat my buddy via my phone and having total glitch errors with it all. I walk across the street and check my bank balance and light another cigarette to no problem as I walked off towards my mother's house. I don't know what truly happened from that parking lot in Olympia to that fog banked road in Montesanno but I do know that this IS exactly what happened to me.
January 2, 2015 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Bridgeport, CT
Six red spheres hovering in vertical formation over Long Island in 2-2-2 formation. Seen from Bridgeport Harbor (Port 5 - by Captain's Cove) Stationary.
January 1, 2015 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Pacific Grove, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 1, 2015 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Oakland, CA
It was about 17:15 in the evening of January 1st, 2015. I was walking west down my street in Oakland, CA. The sun had just set behind the buildings in front of me but there was still a lot of light outside. I noticed in the sky something that was bright orange, almost fire like. I thought it was a blimp, but it moved differently. Its movement was fluid, not jerky, and it seemed to move around in all directions with great ease. At one point It must have turned in an orbit, like a planet turns, because it seemed like the orange glow was a reflection of the sun off a silver looking sphere in the sky. I took my phone out, took a picture, and then started recording it. I recorded for about two minutes until it dissapeared. The video goes blurry because the autofocus was on. Initially when I saw the object, it seemed to hover at the hight of what planes fly at, but within two minutes it was so much higher. Here is the link to the video: http://youtu.be/YIfWstTjGkQ We spoke with the woman who submitted the report, and she seemed to us to be quite eloquent and sober-minded. Because of the nature of her employment, we suspect that she is a very good witness. PD
January 1, 2015 · 6:30 AM · SPHERE
Rozet, WY
A round bright green meteor fell slowly for 5 seconds and burnt out very close to ground.